Preload Next Book

When it downloads

• The current book is 80 % played.
• The next book is the same one “Next Book Automatically” would choose — even if the automatic move is off — and it has audio.
• The next book is entirely in iCloud. A book already on the device or downloading is left alone by this row.
• Once per opening of the book: if the next book has moved back to iCloud since then, it comes back again the next time you open the book.

Network and space

• With “Offload only over Wi‑Fi” in Settings → “Data”, on cellular and over Personal Hotspot the download waits for Wi‑Fi. If Wi‑Fi appears while the book is playing, the download starts.
• The book comes back in full and takes space on the device, just as when you bring it back by hand.

Tip

Short on space and the books are large? Turn the row off. The next book still plays: its chapters download as you listen, only the move to it will wait for the network.

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